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The conventional wisdom is that Brazil's humiliating 7-1 defeat to Germany in the World Cup has created an unprecedented climate of gloom that will affect President Dilma Rousseff's chances to win re-election in October. But the conventional wisdom may be wrong: There are several reasons to believe that she may still win a second term. Shortly after World Cup host Brazil, the favorite to win the trophy, was demolished by the German team in one of the most stunning results in soccer history, Brazil went into a national crisis mood. Even before the game was over, when Germany was winning by 5-0, disgruntled Brazilian fans started chanting anti-Rousseff slogans, and posted...

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The conventional wisdom is that Brazil's humiliating 7-1 defeat to Germany in the World Cup has created an unprecedented climate of gloom that will affect President Dilma Rousseff's chances to win re-election in October. But the conventional wisdom may be...

For one New Britain native, the war between Israel and Hamas is not just something to hear about on the evening news or scroll by on her Facebook news feed.
Judy Weinstein Goldberg is experiencing it firsthand.
Currently living in Ashkelon, Israel,...

As I read Vlad's op-ed in The New York Times, a Judy Collins tune kept replaying in my head: "Isn't it rich? Isn't it queer?"
The song, actually written by Stephen Sondheim, is "Send in the Clowns" and seems an apt soundtrack for...

HARTFORD — Spurred by the threat that a congressional showdown over Obamacare will shut down the federal government, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's budget director asked heads of state agencies Tuesday for contingency plans by Oct. 1 on how to maintain federally...

Dora B. Schriro, a respected lawyer who has spent most of her career running prisons in New York City, Arizona and Missouri and who has never served as a police officer, was named Monday as state police commissioner.
Schriro was the only candidate...

Governor uses official residence for wedding of state contractor and political crony.
You'd be excused if you think Connecticut has returned to the dark Rowland years. You'd be wrong. It was last weekend and the governor with the bad judgment is that...

The shell from the Confederate mortar, its red fuse glowing “like the wings of a firefly,’’ according to one observer, hung briefly before beginning its descent and exploding directly over Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor.That first shot, at 4:30 a.m....

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says he is "prospecting" for business at an international conference in Switzerland so that companies can bring their operations to Connecticut.Malloy is spending several days in snow-covered Davos, where the...

Robin Givens and Leon star in Ericka Nicole Malone’s “In Love with Tyrone”, a nine-city touring gospel stage show that plays the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford tonight at 8 p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 8 at 7 p.m.Also featured is...

Robin Givens and Leon star in Ericka Nicole Malone’s “In Love with Tyrone”, a nine-city touring gospel stage show that plays the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford tonight at 8 p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 8 at 7 p.m.Also featured is...

Even as it announced a bigger than expected quarterly loss, Webster Financial Corp. made a bullish statement Tuesday about its prospects: It wants to repay the $400 million it received last year from the U.S. Treasury's Capital Purchase Program.
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General Motors plans to start notifying thousands of dealers this week that they'll lose their franchises by 2011, a drastic winnowing that's expected to reduce the number of GM dealerships in Connecticut by a third or more.
The Connecticut Automotive...

The HOPE for Homeowners foreclosure prevention program began in October with expectations that 400,000 troubled borrowers — 3,700 of them in Connecticut — might get help staying in their homes.
Seven months later, the reality has been quite different:...

Consumer spending rebounded somewhat, but the economy shrank at a worse-than-expected 6.1 percent pace at the start of this year, reflecting sharp cutbacks by businesses and the biggest drop in U.S. exports in 40 years.
The 30 percent drop in exports,...

The conservative government watchdog group Judicial Watch filed an ethics complaint Friday against U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd, saying the price Dodd paid for his cottage in Ireland amounted to a gift from a friend and accusing the senator of failing to...

Nearly 75 percent of Connecticut businesses say they've adopted "green practices" such as recycling or reducing pollution, but nearly one-third said such efforts have become a lower priority because of the recession, according to a survey...

Connecticut officials praised Tuesday's decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to allow California to impose stringent regulations on greenhouse gas pollution from cars.
The decision will allow other states, including Connecticut, to follow...

It's summer 2009, and for Queen Elizabeth II this means it's time for a new helicopter from her nation's former colonial territory, Connecticut.
Sikorsky Aircraft of Stratford (on the Housatonic, not upon-Avon) is in the final stages of preparing a...

James T. Fleming, 54, has been president of the Connecticut Automotive Retailers Association since March 2008. Its 270 members, down from 325 a year ago, are licensed to sell new cars. In addition to working in the private sector, Fleming previously...